Life Cycle Reliability Engineering [Hardcover]

As the Lead Reliability Engineer for Ford Motor Company, Guangbin Yang is involved with all aspects of the design and production of complex automotive systems. Focusing on real-world problems and solutions, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering covers the gamut of the techniques used for reliability assurance throughout a product's life cycle. Yang pulls real-world examples from his work and other industries to explain the methods of robust design (designing reliability into a product or system ahead of time), statistical and real product testing, software testing, and ultimately verification and warranting of the final product's reliability

1 Reliability Engineering and Product Life Cycle 1

1.1 Reliability Engineering 1

1.2 Product Life Cycle 2

1.3 Integration of Reliability Engineering into the Product Life Cycle 5

1.4 Reliability in the Concurrent Product Realization Process 6

Problems 7

2 Reliability Definition Metrics and Product Life Distributions 9

2.1 Introduction 9

2.2 Reliability Definition 10

2.3 Reliability Metrics 12

2.4 Exponential Distribution 17

2.5 Weibull Distribution 19

2.6 Mixed Weibull Distribution 22

2.7 Smallest Extreme Value Distribution 24

2.8 Normal Distribution 26

2.9 Lognormal Distribution 28

Problems 31

3 Reliability Planning and Specification 33

3.1 Introduction 33

3.2 Customer Expectations and Satisfaction 34

3.3 Reliability Requirements 41

3.4 Reliability Program Development 48

3.5 Reliability Design and Design for Six Sigma 61

Problems 64